Countries with close economic and political ties to China, including Russia and Ukraine, as well as serial human rights violators Ethiopia and Iran, on Tuesday held a regular review of the Communist Party's perceived “progress” on human rights issues. praised. Beijing's record at the United Nations.
China is one of the 14 countries covered by “.universal periodic review” at the 2024 United Nations Human Rights Council, which began on Tuesday. The review consists of Council Member States presenting commentary, advice and criticism of their performance on human rights issues, followed by a report compiled by a Working Group of Human Rights Council Member States. .
Despite its name, the Human Rights Council often serves as a haven for the world's most aggressive persecutors and human rights abusers. New members joining the board in 2023 include authoritarian states such as Cuba, Qatar, Eritrea and Vietnam, as well as repressive Islamist states such as Pakistan.
The 2023 United Nations Human Rights Council is currently in session.
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Kazakhstan
bangladeshI wish I had made this up. it's not. Currently, 70% of the UNHRC is non-democratic. #75UDHR
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China is also a member of the Human Rights Council. The Communist Party is currently engaged in at least one genocide against East Turkistan's Muslim-majority Uighur population, including the mass incarceration of millions of people in concentration camps and the targeting of thousands of women. This is carried out through forced sterilization and state-sponsored sterilization campaigns. Children are taken away from their families and raised in Han culture and communist values. China has also recently rebranded Tibet to the Mandarin name “Xizang” and scattered “boarding schools” to erase the Tibetan language and culture, and the government is running a campaign to erase local ethnic groups. Inner Mongolia, where they live, has also been accused of an ethnic cleansing campaign. language and culture.
China also regularly represses ordinary citizens who do not enjoy freedom of religion, expression, or other basic civil rights. Their actions are monitored through a “social credit system” that penalizes those deemed insufficiently enthusiastic about totalitarian dictator Xi Jinping and the communist regime.
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At Tuesday's regular review, China faced criticism from the United States, Britain and a handful of Western states.
“We condemn the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, and the cross-border repression aimed at silencing individuals abroad,” said U.S. representative Michelle Taylor. claimed.her British partner prompted China calls for “an end to the persecution and arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and Tibetans, and to allow them genuine freedom of religion, belief and cultural expression without fear of surveillance, torture, forced labor or sexual violence.” .
However, countries friendly to the Communist Party made no mention of the genocide and widespread repression within the country. Russia, often considered China's biggest ally, claimed that China had made “remarkable progress in the field of social and economic development” and praised China's ability to “effectively defend human rights.”
The government of Iran, an Islamist dictatorship with close ties to both Russia and China, similarly praised China's alleged efforts in “promoting social, cultural and economic rights” through “economic planning.”
The representative of Ethiopia, whose government has been locked in a two-year civil war with groups representing the Tigray ethnic minority, declared that the country “praises China for improving its criminal procedure system.”
Even countries nominally friendly to the West supported China despite its genocidal recent history. Representatives from Ukraine, who attended the review, said that although it has benefited greatly from Western support against Russia's ongoing territorial aggression, it has “benefited from the common values of humanity, including universal and inalienable human rights.” We commend China's efforts to promote this.” according to to South China Morning Post.
hungarian government issued Praises China's support for “several human rights instruments”. India, which similarly enjoys close ties with the West and has a recent history of conflict with China, praised Beijing's alleged “progress” since 2018.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs congratulated the successful exhibition at the United Nations at a regular press conference on Wednesday.
“Parties broadly praised China's open and candid stance and gave generally positive assessments of China's achievements in the field of human rights,” said Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the United States. Said reporters.
“More than 120 countries highly praised China's human rights progress and fully recognized China's efforts and historical achievements in human rights progress and protection,” Wang asserted.
He claimed:
These comments point to the successful norms of China's human rights progress: the leadership of the Communist Party of China and socialism with Chinese characteristics. Because they determined the socialist nature of China's human rights movement.
“In China, the people are the masters, human rights are equally enjoyed by all, and the people's fundamental interests are realized, protected and promoted,” Wang declared.
